The Trading of the Screw
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Atomic-clock-backed synchronization radio broadcast
Nice when you buy a clock not only using that thingy, but depending on it (i.e. without any fallback)...
Travel to the other side of the big pond, and it will refuse to work at all.
We could say that it's something like the Ancestor of Internet of Shit.Screws. Machine screws in particular. At the historical period a couple decades before you could go get a tap&die set.
The need to create a set of standards to enable the trade in tiny screws, can be taken as an archetypal standards proliferation study case.
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No sense of perspective these days, none at all.
